Altered States Author:Paddy Chayefsky Paddy Chayefsky, one of America's major dramatists, was born in the Bronx in 1923. — One of his television dramas, Marty, was the first TV film to successfully make the transition to a motion picture, and it won Chayefsky the Academy Award and the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The Bachelor Party was also acclaimed as a film; and other ... more »notable movies include The Goddess, Middle of the Night, The Americanization of Emily, Hospital and Network. For the latter two, he won his second and third Academy Awards.
Prof. Jessup has been experimenting with sensory depravation and hallucinogenic drugs. In his search to learn more about abnormal behavior, he starts to change.....